Haven't worn this watch for months, but it's such a fun one to wear in summer. Beautiful dial and a Seiko movement that will probably outlive me. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment . Haven't worn this watch for months, but it's such a fun one to wear in summer. Beautiful dial an...

Look at the past history of this blog. There are many blog posts about programming with AI, a few of them date back to January 2024 (like this: https://antirez.com/news/140). I’m a relatively well regarded programmer, after all. I don’t have the need to still be in the “loop” as a old man that seeks for relevance, I recently rejoined Redis, and now I also am developing a new open source software for local LLM inference that received a good welcome in the community. Why I keep doing this,...

The excellent graphic novel Prime Suspects: The Anatomy of Integers and Permutations by Andrew Granville and Jennifer Granville,  illustrated by Robert J Lewis, (I wrote a review of this graphic novel, for SIGACT News,  here .) has an appendix, which is not in graphic-novel form, where they describe some of the math talked about in the graphic novel.  Here is a quote that intrigued me for two reasons 2 is the smallest prime factor of half of the integers, 3 is the smallest prime factor of one...

“ Venice: The Basin of San Marco on Ascension Day ” by Canaletto, via the National Gallery of London . Welcome to the reading list, a weekly roundup of news and links related to buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology. This week we look at adults living with their parents, Samsung’s profits, Native American data centers, Puerto Rico’s electricity grid, and more. Roughly 2/3rds of the reading list is paywalled, so for full access become a paid subscriber. Housekeeping items:...

While going through the Go generics proposal , I got curious about how the compiler implements it. Compilers usually handle generics in one of two ways: With full monomorphization , the compiler turns generic code into concrete, type-specific code. It generates a separate version for every set of type arguments the program uses. Rust works this way, and so do C++ templates. With type erasure , the compiler keeps one shared version of the generic code and replaces the type paramete...

The goal of this post is to answer a simple question: why are the following two definitions of the vector dot product in Euclidean space [1] equivalent for vectors \vec{a} and \vec{b} : Component definition: \vec{a}\cdot\vec{b}=\sum_{i=1}^{n}a_i b_i Geometric definition: \vec{a}\cdot\vec{b}=|\vec{a}||\vec{b}|cos(\theta) , where |\vec{a}| is the magnitude of \vec{a} and is the angle between the vectors’ directions Here’s a graphical depiction of our vectors (focusing on...

Recent conflicts in Iran and Ukraine show that modern warfare does not wait for ideal communications, clear GPS signals, or manual replanning from a ground station. Modern strike systems must operate through jamming, degraded links, and changing target conditions while coordinating with ISR and relay assets in real time. To begin addressing this challenge, Shield AI and Destinus partnered to bring Hivemind mission autonomy software onto the Destinus Hornet platform, paving the way for integratio...

Birgitta Böckeler now reports on her recent experiences trying local LLMs for coding. She compares them using two standard tasks, and tries out the most promising model for day-to-day use. more… Birgitta Böckeler now reports on her recent experiences trying local LLMs for coding. She compares them using two standard tasks, and tries out the most promising model for day-to-day use. more… Birgitta Böckeler now reports on her recent experiences t...

We haven’t had a Music Monday for a while, my ongoing blog series where I post about music on a Monday. Thanks Ruben, that clarification was not only helpful, but prescient. Wait, no it wasn’t. I have been getting back into Massive Attack again, and I can never decide what my favourite song is from their 1991 Blue Lines album. Today, it’s this incredible opener. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2026-07-13. We haven’t had a Music Monday for a while, my ongoing blog series where I...

We may have gone to the Moon before but we haven’t been to its south pole. There’s a big difference. The south polar environment is far harsher than the near-equatorial or mid-latitude sites where Apollo astronauts and most robotic missions have landed. At the lunar poles, the slopes are far steeper , Sun and Earth visibility for power and communications respectively more limited, temperatures inside water-hosting permanently shadowed regions crossing into cryogenic realms , and smooth...

I have been on X for a long time. Like most people who post regularly, I have a gut feeling for what might interest people. I post in the morning. Longer posts seem to do better. But gut feelings are not measurements. And until recently, digging into your own posting data meant either clicking around the web UI or writing custom scripts. Neither is particularly friendly when you want to ask ad hoc questions with an AI assistant. X recently launched hosted MCP servers: official endpoints ...

I like reading letters for particular persons. You and I talk about simulating each other. I've got a little Jon (not a Lil Jon) inside me. He tells me about chemistry, and systems, and to not take it all so seriously, dude. That voice is one of the wisest and best parts of me. Thanks. I can't simulate just anybody. Only high-fidelity training data creates simulations, and we've shared the human experience. I cherish our training data -- years of spats, riffs, tiffs, spills, wins, and shenan...

As a software engineer, how well do you have to understand your own codebase? My guess is that people who work on small codebases with low-turnover teams (say, Redis or games like The Witness ) would say “obviously you have to understand it completely, otherwise you can’t do good work”. I’d also guess that people who work on large codebases with high-turnover teams (say, the Google web search backend or GitHub) would say “obviously you can’t understand it completely, you just ha...

OpenAI's latest flagship model hit general availability this morning , and comes in three sizes: Luna, Terra, and Sol (from smallest to largest). The new models are priced per 1M input/output tokens as Luna $1/$6, Terra $2.50/$15, Sol $5/$30. For comparison, the Claude Opus series are $5/$25 and the Claude Fable 5 is $10/$50, but price-per-million tokens doesn't tell us much now that the number of reasoning tokens can differ so much between models for the same task. All three models have a...

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Previously I opined that Valve was about to win the console generation . I couldn't have possibly predicted that both Microsoft and Sony would just self-sabotage so hard that they're both going to lose. Between Microsoft's decimation of the Xbox division , slaughtering off the IdTech team , and continued increases of Xbox hardware prices ; there's nothing to really be excited about with the Xbox. Sure their most recent presentation showed off a bunch of exclusives, but none of them...

Ruben and I are doing a collaborative writing challenge where we both write our thoughts on the poem “Repeat that, repeat” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. We’re not trying to do an academic formal analysis, rather share our own thoughts. You can read Ruben's post on his website . If you are interested in writing your thoughts on the poem on your website, you are most welcome! Email me if you write your own reflections, and I’ll add a link to your post if you write one at the bottom of this...

Last week, Kate Ivey-Williams, the Head of UCD on my programme, asked me: “What do you think your role is as a designer?” I said: “Errr… I design products that are easy to use… errr… I realise that’s a rubbish answer…” Kate saved me: “Don’t worry, I put you on the spot” But even so, as a designer you should be ready to be put on the spot because: If you aren’t able to explain what you do, it’s much harder for your teammates and stakeholders to value what...

Adobe employed 31,360 people worldwide at the close of fiscal 2025, up 651 from a year earlier and the slowest headcount growth in a decade. Revenue per employee reached roughly $757,800, among the highest of any large software company. This post covers Adobe’s workforce size, growth trend, geographic split, role mix, diversity figures, and the revenue efficiency behind them. Adobe Employee Statistics – TL;DR Adobe had 31,360 employees as of November 28, 2025, a 2.12% increase over f...

We compared 100 human annotated traces against automated eval systems. Here's what we found. We compared 100 human annotated traces against automated eval systems. Here's what we found.

The QuadRF (pictured above) a phased-array radio built around a Raspberry Pi 5 and an FPGA board with picosecond-level timing. It does advanced signal processing and beamforming. It can see WiFi through walls and track drones in flight. If the open source community can come up with something like this, just imagine what governments are capable of. When you plug a computer into a network, tools like Wireshark can show all the hidden traffic you might not even know is there. WiFi packe...

With the 150th interview of People and Blogs now live, it’s officially time to downsize my online presence again. My digital life follows a somewhat regular rhythm and I alternate through phases of expansion, where I buy domain names, ship new projects, start newsletters, and chase a million ideas, and phases of contraction, where everything happens in reverse: domains are left to expire, projects are archived, newsletters are deleted, services are cancelled. And my recent decoupling from t...

I haven’t had time to blog in a while, I have a lot to say, but have been doing a lot of things and so haven’t gotten words down in a while. One of those things in the past few weeks has been picking back up my Rue project. I’m really excited for what it’s turning into, even though it’s not really ready for anyone else to use just yet. So go take a look if you want, but don’t expect anything amazing, it’s very much a work in progress. Anyway, one of the things that got me bac...